For men, I think, love is a thing formed of equal parts lust and astonishment. The astonishment part women understand. The lust part they only think they understand.

Writing is seduction.

It's a cash and carry world. Sometimes you pay a little. Mostly it's a lot. Sometimes, it's everything you have.

Cats were the gangsters of the animal world, living outside the law and often dying there. There were a great many of them who never grew old by the fire.

I love crime, I love mysteries, and I love ghosts.

Animals don't know as much about jealousy as people, but they're not ignorant of it, either.

Now panic beats and flutters inside my skull like a flock of starlings locked in an attic.